AlterEgo2024

There has always been a "small circle of friends" who could get favors from CGC. This goes back to the very beginning of the company, or at least to the S. Borock era.

Lots of great quotes in that article. Great web site too.

Hi Mike, My original username was my real first and last name. I'd prefer to not have that username resurrected due to my concern with internet security in general . I appreciate your offer.

I have no idea who that is.

You can send a PM to the board administrators and ask them to check my email and IP addresses (or whatever process they use to detect Stu) if you'd like. I originally started on the board in 2003 when Flaming Telepath (remember him?) told me about the CGC board in a message he had sent to me on eBay. I was active on the board until the new forum software was implemented. As you may recall, some users were not able to login in on the new board. I was one of those users. I tried to have my login recovered but for whatever reason I was never able to log back in. So, I gave up on visiting the board until last year. I've basically been a lurker until now.

Great article. Sounds like comic books need something like the Writers Guild guidelines mentioned by Evanier.

No, I'm not Stu.

Any EPL fans here? I'd be interested in some discussion about the upcoming season. Of course we know who's going to win the league this year.

I finally read this last year.

Can't wait to see him and the guy from Switzerland have a "discussion".

Thomas along with John Buscema created a "new" character who has a strikingly similar appearance to the 1940's Vision. The details of the "new" character are absolutely different than the 1940's character, but would the "new" character have existed at all if not for the original? Thomas has often said that he wanted to revive the 1940's Timely characters in some way. The obvious example of this is Avengers #97. Do you think Thomas would have have chosen the name "Vision" for the "new" character if the original 1940's Vision didn't exist? Do you think Thomas/Buscema would have come up with the existing visual design of the silver age Vision if the 1940's character didn't exist? IMO the only way Thomas deserves co-creator credit is if he and Buscema had created an entirely new character with an entirely new look, origin and name. He did half of that, and basically had Buscema copy and update the original 1940's visual design of the character.

Also from the article... "He is known for his work as the co-creator of numerous popular characters, including Vision....." Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Vision already a character in the 1940's Timely comics? Roy certainly deserves credit for reviving and updating the character in Avengers #57, but in no way did he a co-create the character unless he was writing comics in his playpen.

Speaking of Mr. Delic...... Has he been permanently banned, or is he doing an X month bid on probation, or has he decided to just go away?

From the article. "... with myself as editor-in-chief quite content to let Len, John and Herb handle things once I gave out general marching orders." And then demand primary credit afterwards. Sounds like Roy learned a valuable lesson from his mentor.